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93 Monthly Lab. Rev. 80 (1970)
Developments in Industrial Relations

handle is hein.journals/month93 and id is 436 raw text is: Equal employment opportunity Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz announced a national program for achieving equal employ- ment opportunity in federally funded construc- tion work in 19 cities. It calls for special efforts to develop such programs in -the cities named, including the possible installation of Phila- delphia-type plans for those communities unable to develop acceptable area-wide agreements on their own initiative. (The controversial Philadel- phia Plan, implemented in September 1969,' stipulates that bidders on federally assisted con- struction projects in the Philadelphia area submit affirmative action plans providing for minority membership of at least 19 percent of the work force in six skilled building trades by 1973.) In urging contractors, unions, minority group organizations, and local officials in the 19 cities to speed development of area-wide agreements to provide equal employment opportunities in con- struction, Secretary Shultz said, We favor voluntary, area-wide agreements to the imposi- tion of specific requirements by the Government. He added that the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCC) will first focus attention on six cities-Boston, Detrit, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Newark. The selection of these six cities was based on indications of need and the OFCC's resources. Criteria used in selecting all the cities included labor shortages, availability of minority craftsmen and their representation in critical trades, total population and the minority proportion, and the volume of Federal construction in the areas. Other cities named included Buffalo, Cincinnati, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Prepared by Leon Bornstein and other members of the staff of the Division of Trends in Employee Compensa- tion, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and based on information from newspapers and other secondary sources available in February. 80 Miami, Milwaukee, New Orleans New York, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. Even though Pittsburgh was originally included on the list, a tripartite memorandum of understanding covering minority group hiring had been reached for the Pittsburgh area on January 30 by the Pittsburgh Building Trades Unions, contractors' associations, and the Black Construction Coali- tion. The Pittsburgh agreement called for an affirmative action program for training and em- ploying 1,250 new minority journeymen within 4 years. A 12-man committee will govern the program; a chairman without vote will be appointed as the 13th committee member. Under the program, the committee may enter into contracts with the Government and other organizations to recruit, counsel, train, and orient persons for the construction industry. (A similar agreement to bring 4,000 Negroes into Chicago-area construc- tion jobs was signed on January 12.2) The Labor Department later issued a statement approving the Pittsburgh agreement. In another move intended to equalize job opportunities, the Department of Labor issued an order specifying affirmative action require- ments for Federal contractors outside the con- struction industry. The new rules implement a July 1968 directive from the Department requiring such contractors to develop minority-group hiring plans. An employer with at least 50 employees and Government contracts exceeding $50,000 must draw up compliance plans and submit them within 120 days of the start of the contracts. Until these plans are found acceptable, the Department said, the contractors will not be complying with the equal opportunity requirements. However, the contractor will not be considered in noncompliance with the order if he has made a good-faith effort to meet his equal employment opportunity obligations. The order specified that a contractor conduct an analysis of all major job categories and provide explanations if minorities are being underutilized Developments in Industrial Relations 4

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